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Early adolescents' temperament, emotion regulation during mother-child interactions, and depressive symptomatology

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posted on 2011-02-01, 00:00 authored by M B H Yap, N B Allen, Melissa O'SheaMelissa O'Shea, P Di Parsia, J G Simmons, L Sheeber
This study examined the relations among temperament, emotion regulation, and depressive symptoms in early adolescents. Early adolescents provided self-reports of temperament on two occasions, as well as reports on emotion regulation and depressive symptomatology. Furthermore, 163 of these adolescents participated in event-planning and problem-solving interactions with their mothers. Adolescents with temperaments that were high in negative emotionality or low in effortful control displayed more emotionally dysregulated behaviors during the interaction tasks, reported having maladaptive responses to negative affect more often and adaptive responses less often, and had more depressive symptoms. In particular, adolescents with the high negative emotionality and low effortful control temperament combination reported the highest levels of depressive symptomatology. Sequential analyses of family interactions indicated that adolescents with more depressive symptoms were more likely to reciprocate their mothers' negative affective behaviors. Adolescents' adaptive and maladaptive responses to negative affect mediated the associations between their temperament and concurrent depressive symptoms. © Copyright Cambridge University Press 2011.

History

Journal

Development and Psychopathology

Volume

23

Issue

1

Pagination

267 - 282

ISSN

0954-5794

eISSN

1469-2198

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal